One was a sonsie good-wife with any amount of bundles, the other a little old man with a face of almost superhuman wisdom.
Address To A Haggis Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o' the pudding-race!
Everywhere we go we see fresh, fair-haired, sonsie lassies; why should we have been visited with this affliction, we who have no courage in a foreign land to rid ourselves of it?
The likeness of some ewe-milking, cheese-making sonsie Hepburn hath descended to thee, and hath been fostered by country breeding.
The stranger knew she was lying, and Eudora knew it, but said nothing except to bid the girl get up and assist Sonsie with the supper.
Sonsie is here to get it and will have it directly.
It was rather yellow like the table cloth, and the creases where it was folded were a little dark, but Mandy Ann turned it, and refolded and pressed it, and laid it on the china plate, while Sonsie looked on and admired.
Sonsie asked, with a sudden inspiration which was received with great scorn by Mandy Ann, to whom there had also come an inspiration on which she at once acted.
Stanza the second I am well pleased with; and I think it conveys a fine idea of that amiable part of the sex--the agreeables; or what in our Scotch dialect we call a sweet sonsie lass.
My scarcity of English denies me the power of doing her justice in that language, but you know the Scottish idiom: she was a "bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass.
The thoughts in the fifth stanza come finely up to my favourite idea--a sweet sonsie lass: the last line, however, halts a little.
Everywhere we go we see fresh, fair-haired, sonsie lasses; why should we have been visited by this affliction, we who have no courage in a foreign land to rid ourselves of it?
I've been deaved aboot 'im a' the day, but I haena seen the sonsie rascal nor the braw collar the Laird Provost gied 'im.
It's no' a picnic wi'oot a sonsie doggie to rin on the brae wi' ye.
To the sonsie air of "Bonnie Dundee" Bobby hopped and stepped and louped, and he turned about on his hind feet, his shagged fore paws drooped on his breast as daintily as the hands in the portraits of early Victorian ladies.
George Ross and Mr. Alexander McGregor shook Bobby's lifted paw and called him a sonsie rascal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonsie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
